Manager - Datacenter Infrastructure

Iberdrola • Boston, MA

85d • $144,600 - $180,700

About The Position

We are seeking a highly skilled leader with experience leading high technical teams to join our dynamic organization. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in storage solutions and cloud environments, with a proven track record of managing technical operations and infrastructure support teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field with 7 years relevant experience required.
• Masters degree a plus.
• Experience in working as an Infrastructure Manager, Microsoft Engineer, Linux/Unix sysadmin, Cloud Engineer, or an IT consulting role.
• Prior managing IT Infrastructure projects and resolving day to day issues.
• Project Management experience and Vendor and Licensing management experience is a plus.
• Strong technical, analytical, interpersonal, collaboration, organizational skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to proactively identify innovative solutions to challenging problems.
• Management skills including staff development and budget.
• Strong overall understanding of relevant business procedures.
• Understanding of on prem distributed systems architecture and functioning, virtualization and hyperconvergence.
• Understanding of Storage and Backup technologies and topologies.

Nice To Haves

• Extensive experience with IBM, Dell, and NetApp storage solutions.
• Proficiency in managing Brocade switches and directors.
• Proven experience in managing technical operations or infrastructure support teams in AWS and/or Azure cloud or data center environments.
• Hands-on experience with Nutanix, Microsoft, Red Hat Linux, Storage, or IBM Power AIX.
• Expertise in using Ansible for automation and also Infrastructure as Code deployment.
• Strong leadership and team management skills.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage high-performing technical teams in cloud storage and infrastructure environments.
• Infrastructure lifecycle management (HW/SW).
• Automate storage infrastructure using Ansible.
• Identifies opportunities for improving operational efficiency and reliability while reducing costs.
• Engagement with Applications Team in order to define requirements and needs for Applications Projects execution.
• Resource planning and assignment to applications projects in alignment with Infrastructure projects pipeline.
• Ensure the delivery of services in line with IT metrics and processes.
• Provide leadership for client led and IT led projects.
• Handles task prioritization, performance monitoring, task assignment, task status reporting, project work, and overall lifecycle planning.
• Ownership of the infrastructure inventory in the corporate CMDB, ensuring the quality of the data.
• Manages budgets, dossiers, licensing, contract spend approvals and reports on budget variances.
• Local and Global Project Management Delivery.
• Manage coordination with the Global peers in TPO.
• Manages resources (people, processes and technology).
• Maintains and develops the needed skills of the staff.
• Communicates employee feedback, researches and resolves employee questions, and reports performance appraisal results.
• Defines learning paths for the team continuous training.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Industry: Utilities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees